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UNDP, Rotary initiative on AIDS

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JUNE 6. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) will partner the Rotary Club network in Chennai to bolster the HIV/AIDS prevention campaign, with the thrust on fostering leadership at various levels of society.

The UNDP is promoting the "Leadership for Results" initiative, which generates leaders and change agents from three segments — the Government and NGOs, arts and media and people living with HIV/AIDS.

This approach involves innovative strategies such as transformational leadership, appreciative enquiry and community conversations in the drive against HIV/AIDS.

These techniques address the factors responsible for the spread of HIV/AIDS through story-telling, role-playing, drama and other techniques. Community members are trained to develop a better understanding of the epidemic and encouraged to develop effective ways to respond.

`Community conversations' help to study the community perspective on how to live with and respect people living with HIV/AIDS and involve them in social responses to the epidemic. This approach is believed to be better than the lecture-pamphlet-poster model.

An interactive workshop was held on Sunday for around 40 Rotary Club presidents. Allen Henderson, leadership consultant from the UNDP and Mohan Sharma, centennial president, Rotary Club of Madras Central, led the programme from either side.

Mr. Henderson drew attention to the fact that the infection was a very personal experience. The `Leadership for Results' essentially examines what kind of leadership impacts on behaviour of individuals.

Mr. Sharma said the Rotary network proposes to launch the HIV/AIDS prevention campaign on the model of the successfully penetrative Pulse Polio exercise. The Rotary network, which had spent close to Rs. 5,000 crores for polio eradication, would help scale up the country's response to HIV/AIDS.

The Rotary network proposes to reach out to corporate houses, schools, colleges,

industries and other segments, Mr. Sharma said.

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